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bunbotbuggiman · 4 months ago

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au where the peak lords reincarnate as Bingge's quarter demon spawn

saw a post (https://www.tumblr.com/cursed-angelic-art/686056254886559744/do-you-think-mobei-jun-is-the-one-playing-father) talking abt if mbj "played dad" for og lbh's army of kids and-

au where the peak lords reincarnate as Bingge's quarter demon spawn

they all have different mothers but are all the same age- were born the same year-

even sqq, who's nyy's favorite kid (because he reminds her of her shizun, during the good days before lbh became a disciple) despite not being her kid (she herself never had any kids, which doesn't bother her as much because neither did lmy or shl and they're the head wives still so) (in the same vein, Liu Mingyans favorite kid is the one who behaves most like her late brother)

This world's version of Shen Yuan, however, was born as the son of one of mbj's advisors, before said advisor and his family died in a tragic accident. so he was adopted by mobei-jun and shang qinghua at the ripe old age of barely a few weeks old.

His name: Mo Yuan, named after an old friend of Shang Qinghua's from his secret pre-transmigration life (In this world, SY is not a transmigrator.... maybe he is a reincarnation.... but there's no real way to tell, he sure doesn't remember anything)

So he's an ice demon. looks like Shen Yuan but everything about him is like 30 shades more MBJ. he adores his parents, and his parents adore him, and because of this mutual adoration he has successfully grown up completely secure in his status as their child in spite of fully knowing of his adopted status.

This being said, there are very few individuals who also know this fact, because since the transition was so fast (and because Shang Qinghua knows stuff, and Mobei-Jun knows he knows stuff) they just bullshit it and say that Mo Yuan is a magical plant baby who was born as a full demon in spite of technically being a half demon because of magic plant bullshit.

He looks enough like shang qinghua to make it believable anyways, so it's fine.

Mo Yuan and Shang Qinghua also have a really weird relationship where MY at some point got into Shang Qinghua's writings (only the age appropriate stuff.... he found out about the porn at a later age) and violently hated it, but Shang Qinghua found it:

A. funny that his son was so violently opinionated and

B. thought it was important that his son be able to have an outlet for these emotions so he honestly encouraged it.

So now they have a really close parental relationship but also are kind of friendly-close because when Mo Yuan found some of SQH's writings, he immediately was like "oh my god Baba you suck???? at writing????? How?????? You are a scribe???? This is so awful???? Baba, you could do this better, and this better, and- what the hell, take this out, oh my god..."

Also, his name in the au is 漠垣 Mo Yuán meaning North[ern] Wall, but his courtesy name is 漠雪峰 Mo Xuefēng, meaning North[ern] Snow[y] Peak.

However, he is beloved by much of the palace staffers, who have watched him grow up much closer than any of Luo Bingge's children, who mostly grow up in the relative isolation of their courtyards and palaces and palace wings, so he is referred to by many of them by his nickname, 雪花 Xuehua, meaning snowflake.

So anyways, he meets + kinda grows up alongside many of the peak lords because he grows up spending a lot of time in the palace by virtue of his dads being, well, Mobei Jun and Shang Qinghua.

Shang Qinghua and Liu Mingyan, shippers prime and book club buddies into this universe (though Mo Yuan staunchly ignores all of LMY's writings because his face is wayyy too thin for that) immediately sees the way that the various children of Luo Bingge climb over each other in desperate attempts to charm and woo the chilly Mo Xuefeng...

and maybe eventually, how one son of Luo Bingge looks at him and how Mo Yuan looks back.

(I haven't decided what I want the pairing to be here.... oopsies y'all, come to y'alls own conclusions ig lmaooo)

#bugwrites #the scum villain's self saving system #svsss au #svsss #shen yuan #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #original shen qingqiu #liu qingge #mobei jun #shang qinghua #moshang #liushen #jiuyuan #mu qingfang #wei qingwei

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pencil-peach · 1 year ago

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G Witch Onscreen Text: Episode 6

GRAAAHH!! This is part SEVEN in my attempt to transcribe and discuss all the onscreen text in G Witch!! Because I CAN!!! GRAHH!! We're on episode 6, halfway through season 1!! Grah Graaaahh!!!

Click here to go back to Episode FIVE!! Grahhh!!!

Let us begin.

Not text, but during Bel and Prospera's initial confrontation, the building they're in has art pieces on display. Maybe it's some kind of museum?

Not text again, but we don't get very many looks into the common areas of the 3 branches, so here's Jeturk House's. It's really flashy and gold, huh? It also matches the aesthetic of Vim's office.

During the scene with Bel and El4n, Bel consults the data on this monitor when she tells him that he'll be fine piloting the Pharact for the duel against Suletta. We get a couple of shots of this monitor, so I'll do my best to glean what information I can from it.

On the left side of the monitor is a mockup of the Pharact. TEXT: (Top Left) REGISTERED NAME: PHARACT MS: FP/A-77 PMET CODE: P017-0046

(Bottom Left) MANUFACTURER: PEIL TECHNOLOGIES STATUS: IN TEST OPERATION

We see the Pharact's Permet Code here, that being PO17-0046. The 'P' probably stands for 'Peil.' Also, have you noticed the the MS IDs for all of Peil's mobile suits have a '/' in them? The 3 branches all have their own unique naming conventions when it comes to their MS codes. It's obvious, sure, but it's something you might not have noticed unless you were looking at it.

This info here, on the right side of the monitor, is much more interesting. TEXT (Header) No. 4 ENHANCED PERSON >PILOTING DEPARTMENT >ID. NO: KP002 NAME: ELAN CERES

This screen is how we learn that El4n is indeed the 4th Enhanced Person in the show proper.

Underneath the header is this info box and a graph. The box on the left says DECISION CRITERIA D2 ***EXAMINATION

What this box means is mostly speculation on my part, but I believe this is a grading system that evaluates the remaining health/usefulness of an enhanced person. There's a red arrow pointing down, implying that this grade, D2, is worse than the grade from the previous evaluation.

The graph to its right is a bit harder to analyze.

It's exceedingly similar to the graph shown during the Shin Sei Inquiry by Shaddiq, that measured Aerial's Permet Influx, but they probably aren't measuring the same thing.

I think it's probably closer to the little bit of this graph we see in the prologue, that I speculated was a measurement of a pilot's exposure to a data storm.

The graph has no title, it only says PHASE on the header, followed by Sys REC Ver. 2.0, which means this data was either recorded from the Pharact of El4n's body. The highlighted point is labelled CHH.

My BEST guess is it's measuring the amount of Permet radiation his body is suffering from.

This is an evaluation of El4n's body, and from this we get a really good look into the true danger of piloting a Gundam.

To start, CNS stands for Central Nervous System, and PNS stands for Peripheral Nervous System. The first box is analyzing the status of the artificial nervous system implanted into El4n's body.

PMET-CNS INTEGRATION can thus be assumed to be analyzing its integration with the rest of El4n's body. MOTOR FUNCTION TEST is self evident, an analysis of El4n's motor skills. HEMANALYSIS is an analysis on the chemical composition of one's blood. CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION TEST is a test evaluating the strength and health of your heart and lungs.

NERVE DAMAGE TEST and CELL SURVIVAL TEST are self evident, but what's most important about them is that, unlike the rest of his results, they're labeled CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTABLE. If he hadn't been disposed of by Peil, we can see that this is probably what would have killed him. A combination of Cellular Necrosis and Nerve Damage.

We can glean from this chart that over exposure to Permet primarily affects the Nervous, Cardiovascular, and Pulmonary systems, as well as cause cellular necrosis.

Finally, though we unfortunately never get a closer look at it than this, there's this final box here, labeled EEG[???], and contains what i think is a CT scan of El4n's brain.

TEXT: PROPULSION CONTROL SYSTEM HIGH MANEUVER MODE

When Suletta is piloting the Aerial to test out the thrusters, we can see the system and mode being tested.

When talking to Miorine and Nika in their shuttle, we can see SS/O.M is added to the com screen on Suletta's phone. Not sure what it means !

Not text but I love Mio's face here after she finishes giving Suletta the pep talk, but before she responds to Nika. She's like, hm! Helping Suletta felt really good. I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.

El4n doesn't have anything in his room whatsoever.

When Suletta asks to talk to El4n, they can't get a hold of him directly, so they just do a HOUSE WIDE BROADCAST instead.

TEXT: MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT ID No: KM079 NAME: EARLTON WELLS.

Not important, but one of the two students Suletta speaks to is named Earlton Wells.

During the duel, Bell can tell that El4n isn't doing well because his flight path is jagged, he can't fly straight anymore.

We can't read this error message, but we can read PMET SCORE 4, so its most likely an error related to that.

We can see the alert message on El4n's screen when he's about to run into the meteor. It just says ALERT.

When Suletta is trapped and Aerial increases its Permet Score, we can see little whispy things on the main monitor. Oooohhh..pretty...

So, bit of a mixup here, before, when Suletta defeated Guel in the rematch, it said she had 2 wins, which made it seem like her previous win had been reinstated. That wasn't true! It was just a mistake, because when she defeats El4n here, she still only has 2 wins. Can't win em all !

Here, we can see that time and temperature in Asticassia's simulated environment. It says 26 degrees and is sunny, which means that Asticassia uses Celsius and not Farenheit.

When Bel begs the Peil Witches to reconsider, if you look at the monitor, you can see Elan hanging up in front of the laser. They're watching him die here, and Bel saw it too.

AND THATS IT!!! HUAAAAHHH!!! THANK YOU FOR READING! I NEED TO GO! YOUR FINAL GIFT:

You ever notice how since the beginning the Enhanced Persons were alluded to be like Eri because only 4 and 5 were ever able to see and hear her when they're overloaded with Permet?

Click here to go to Episode 7!

Click here to go to the Masterpost!

#g witch #gundam the witch from mercury

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afniel · 8 months ago

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It's been long enough, so I finally reread >E.04642-SYS: Failure to compile. as if I hadn't written it and like. Not to blow my own horn but I really liked it. Congrats to me, I set out to write what I wanted to read and I have now read it and it solidly slapped actually. I did in fact want to read that.

It's also a lot longer than it felt in my head? My gods. It's a doorstop. If you assume 280 words per page, that's a 570-ish page brick. The upcoming sequel is the same length. What? How. Who. Me? No way, except the evidence is right there. I did do that. It's that many words.

Anyway I'm actually pretty happy with it. I actually can't think of any changes I'd make now. Nothing felt sloppy, nothing felt there for no reason, there weren't any rushed sections, like damn, past me, you did a good thing. I did some minor edits for typos and continuity (Valentina had hazel eyes for exactly one sentence? Hammer had gray hands? Shrug!) and while I think I missed one or two, that's not bad and unless someone points it out to me, I think I can let it lie.

I do want to throw more art into it but I've been busy with non-art things and cold makes my hands hurt, so that'll happen when it happens.

You can also read it if you want, because it's not like I'm going to shut up about it. I feel really cool about it. Like, yeah it's fanfiction, but it's sufficiently alternate future timeline and I did so much worldbuilding and straight up sci-fi type exploration of themes that like. It's just a novel to me. And several other people who've read it without knowing much if anything about the source material! That's about as glowing a review as I think you can get.

#Nevi Writes #writeblr #writers on tumblr

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bastard-coatedbastards · 7 months ago

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Hiiiii I'm Miren 🎴🎤, I run this shit show, partly - gonna use this blog to work out my sys shit in my head and otherwise because I am NOT relating well to the world rn. I was the host from age 12-18 and I have a LOT of fucking catching up to do apparently despite not being completely dormant.

If you connect this to another blog stfu that alter probably wants to be left alooooone I'm the only one who has fun with other people's opinions of me 😭 long as the people closest to me Get It (and my biggest concern is that they will not lmao).

He/him

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Another alter frequents this blog too.

My name is Percival, you can call me Perry I guess. He/Him. I sign off with 🩺, as the caretaker for our system.

En has been around for a long time, but when he was little I was the "responsible one" a lot of the time. I care deeply about healing, but that has made me deeply frustrated at many points in my life. We were under an abusive roof until we were 18 and I don't even want to think about the first few years of that. My hyperverbal ass doesn't always know when to stop, and I've been around for a very long time. So if you can spare the patience to put up with my bullshit, I'll be impressed. Maybe even grateful, I don't know. I need to dump my thoughts about having this disorder somewhere, because I genuinely do forget that this is my body, too.

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Heya I'm the better Jax, Jaxx'n. I am not technically an introject!!!! I am a fragment who stole an appearance and attitude I liked!! I am the only one allowed to associate me with my source, everyone else fuck off about it. Anyway I'm taking this blog over for a bit. Practice the art of not giving a fuck for a change. I have found comfort and mild enjoyment in logging/categorizing information on our system, but that doesn't mean I don't fuck around for kicks. I can be a little mean, fair warning. 🪩

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🩺💞🏔🎸Some boundaries:

Many of our introjects are fragments who took on those identities and feel seen in them. Many change their name, some do not. Do not harass them about their sources, names, etc.; some will talk about them, others just want to live normally as themselves. Fictives don't choose their traits, because no alter can inherently choose that kind of thing.

Do not harass us about "Endo" discourse; we speak on it when we feel like it. Personally, yes, we believe that this is a disorder stemming from trauma. We also believe trauma is inherent to the human experience and to deny that part of systemhood does everyone a massive disservice. We find the concept of "other origins" largely irrelevant and the "evidence" flimsy at best. Don't like it? DNI.

Our littles are not allowed on this account nor will we be posting about them, with few exceptions.

Don't tell us what's going on with cesspools like r/FDC. Don't fakeclaim or generalize about entire groups of systems. Don't shit-talk random creators who don't have the same system experiences as you. It's fucking obnoxious. DNI if you think having Trauma justifies being a miserable, mean, spiteful person (seriously fuck you for perpetuating those cycles). The people groups mentioned here have opinions that are built on personal issues and unaddressed negative emotions; they are not worth listening to. And no, being abrasive towards people who act like that isn't the same thing. We carry a lot of pain but you don't see us taking it out on just anyone, especially other systems. Jfc.

"don't be a bigot/fascist/Zionist/abuse apologist" should be obvious but y'know. Just don't.

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Boxes by @/sysboxes

Other occasional sign-offs (in order of Who Adds What lmao some picked two emotes):

#🎤#🩺#🪩#🗡️#🎴🎤

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dippydippycritiques · 5 months ago

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Under Night In Birth 2: Sys Celes is a DEAD GAME (My Last Post On The State Of UNI2)

I don't even know where to start with this. I feel like this is the third time I had to address my issues with the sequel. A few months back, I had made multiple different attempts to learn and play the damn game. I even went to discord, which in the end without going into detail, did not get me to enjoy the game either.

I gave it my best shot. I listened to the fans who said there is, in fact, a way to play with other people online (I play on the PS5, not PC cause I don't enjoy it)...but it's been six months since UNI2's release and I'm done being nice. The gloves are officially coming off.

I don't usually come off this harsh towards a video game unless I REALLY have something to say. So if you don't want to listen to me critique and/or bash UNI2 and how it was handled, scroll away, but to me. UNI2 is not only one of the worst sequels ever made. It is also, to me, the worst fighting game I have ever played, period. The gameplay is the ONLY saving grace. It's just too bad that network mode literally has a total of 0 people online to learn it! And before anyone asks. Some people have messaged me and said 'well, why don't you get friends to play with you?" Some people are unfortunately not lucky enough to have friends, or friends with the same interests as other people. When I go online every other night to play BBTAG, that is my escape from reality. It is a game I can feel good playing so that I can forget about my troubles for a couple of hours. Even though there are people who will say "Well, back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, you HAD to find someone to play fighting games with in real life."

Those days are OVER.

Having an online system with a big pool of people in your fighting game should be THE STANDARD. It's one thing if your franchise isn't the type of genre or type of game (like a single player game) that would incorporate an online mode. Fighting games are different. They should ALWAYS have an online mode for people who still want to play and can't find friends to play with. That will be my piece on this subject. Now I want to go into why Under Night In Birth 2: Sys Celes fails on every level.

It is Monday after all (or it was Monday, I had to stop writing half way through) and THIS was the face I made when I realized this game was DEAD AF.

The Character Art

OK, I want to start off with probably the most controversial thing that I cannot prove, but is just speculation, and that's the artwork. I found this out quite recently, but the artist who worked on the first UNI game, Seiichi Yoshihara, is the SAME artist for UNI2. I don't know if the guy posts artwork on a different site in Japan just so I can see if anythings changed, but to me. There is no way someone who had that much style and talent when creating the original designs would forget basic anatomy or facial structure for UNI's sequel. I need to see different artwork from him outside of UNI to really confirm my fears, but the speculation part of this is, unfortunately, I think the guy was rushed and it shows in the art he put out.

I'm not the one that usually says "toxic work environment" when it comes to extremely daunting tasks for a single person with a strict deadline...but man does this feel like it. I just don't think this artist would pump out something mediocre and be ok with it. I would like to believe he clearly trained and practiced his art style already for many years before UNI. Again, I cannot prove this so please take what I say with a gain of salt, but all the signs are there and if it turns out to be true? It was in no way Seiichi Yoshihara's fault and the blame should be shifted towards whoever heads French Bread or ArcSystems. Since we don't know the full story of how UNI2 got developed, it's hard to really point fingers at the right person at the moment until someone speaks up, but if I had to guess. I wouldn't be surprised if ArcSystems was the main contributing factor. I don't believe that the people at French Bread would what to put out a bad game either...but it happened. Until we learn more about UNI2's development, this is really all I can say on the matter when it comes to the artwork.

I'm not going to pick apart the character designs again as doing so would take an hour to really digest it all, but if you know, you know. It's not good, like at all.

Ok, thank you for making it this far. Here's a picture of a dog licking an ice cream cone.

Marketing and Lead Up To UNI2's Launch

What marketing? Welp, that pretty much sums it up. No, but in all seriousness. One of French Breads biggest mistake before the trailer was even shown was that UNI2 was rumored to be a "sequel," when it really isn't. The only reason why it was given the title "UNI2" was due to the arcade mode which was very sloppily put together with no rewarding pay off...that's it. Take that away and UNI2 is literally a copy/paste of the original except everything got downgraded and I mean EVERYTHING. I will talk more about that in a moment, but calling UNI2 a sequel immediately set high expectations for the game that were NEVER going to be there. I fell for this trap myself.

French Bread had several years to work on it. Why couldn't they make new sprites? Or give the same sprites they already had a new coat of paint? Something, anything at all! To imply that your game is a "sequel," to me, by definition would mean French Bread would take the time to create something new from the ground up and upgrade everything. If Devil May Cry 2 copy and pasted all the same mechanics, boss fights, castle areas, and items from the first game EXACTLY how they were with very little changes at all. That game would more than likely be considered a port with very minor tweaks to it, not a sequel. This use of the word "sequel" for UNI2 set up French Bread to fail right from the gate.

So when the first trailer dropped and I saw the artwork. I pretty much knew exactly what kind of game we were going to get. It would be one thing if there was ANY kind of marketing for UNI2 at all...but there wasn't. You can argue that as long as the game is still fun, which it is, you can forgot about all the other things that make it bad...but you have to have a sizable player base to play the damn game! For the time I was on Twitter, I don't even think there was any promotional material at all for UNI2. If I remember right, French Bread doesn't even have a twitter account, and if they do. Everything that was posted about the game completely went under the radar, and due to that. Most casuals who liked playing fighting games didn't know about it's existence. The only people who were following it closely are fans that were already playing BBTAG or UNICLR hoping that, maybe, UNI2 will be "the underdog that changes the fighting game community forever..." There have been many videos of people claiming that on YouTube before the damn thing even dropped. Fans who have already been playing UNICLR for years flocked to their cameras to say that "UNI2 will change everything!." No, it hasn't, and the lack of any growth in the player base for the past several years is my proof.

Point is, when the game dropped in January. There were SOME new players giving it a shot, and the people who wanted to learn it got bullied by the veterans who have already been playing UNI for YEARS! UNI2 needed to market it's game heavily towards new fans so that casuals could learn and fight other casuals instead of being forced into a match with a veteran. This lack of marketing is why UNI2 is now forever stagnant. It will never grow a player base so that beginners can learn how to play along side each other, and even outside of that. People should be able to experiment and mess around with a fighting game without thinking their livelihood is on the line. Fans of fighting games can still have fun with them without taking every match so seriously, and if these new players later on want to expand their knowledge? Let them, don't force them! Forcing players to become better overnight will drive any players who are interested left far, far away. That's the point I am trying to make.

The marketing and the lack of new players to fight is ultimately what doomed this game from the start, and to make matters worse, there isn't really anything "sequel" worthy about UNI2 other then the terrible, terrible endings for many of them (with Gordeau's. Wagner's and Merkavas being some of the exceptions to that rule.) Speaking of which, we should probably move on to those terrible things, huh?

I don't know. I wanted a picture of a gerbil. Here it is! Cute huh?

Alright, now onto--

EVERYTHING ELSE

UNI2 is seriously, SERIOUSLY the definition of a copy/paste sequel with one or two exceptions. The artwork and UI (which is complete and utter trash) and the one or two new moves a character would get. The majority of them either falling into good, meh, bad, or why do I need another spacing tool category. Yes, I'm talking to you Hyde. I think a counter would have benefited him better then another red energy blast of some sort to which Hyde already has several...

Anyways, outside of the "new stuff" and the gameplay, everything is worse. EVERYTHING IS WORSE! How the hell do you do that when UNICLR has already been established???

Let's start with the opening when you boot up UNI2. Who decided that a somber song would hype people up for a fighting game? UNICLRs opening theme was already perfect! Why change it if you know the new one you're putting out is going to be worse by comparison!

That's literally my motto for this game. "Why change it," when what you had in UNICLR was already close to perfect.

All the songs that you love from UNICLR and BBTAG are gone, GONE! UNICLR's opening theme? Not present! Gather under the night? GONE! Overwhelmingly Despair? Hilda's theme? One of the few banger songs in UNICLR that was aloud to how a choir? Rip that shit out and give her a somber, toned down version! Yeah, that will show her! Like...I don't...I don't understand who makes these decisions...

Another glaring issue is the lack of things to buy in this game. After a handful of matches, you will have so much money that literally, like a character from SpongeBob once said, "You won't know what to do with it!" This is mostly because the majority of the alternate colors for every character are already unlocked. Plus, despite that, there is no reason to ever buy these skins because you can customize the sprites colors yourself! Though I do like that I can do this, I particularly hate--

A.) That the the sprites colors are split into sections of the character, meaning you don't have complete control over what the characters look like and--

B.) The lack of colors! There should be a grid somewhere so that you can choose any color you want and this mechanic is not present at all! And even if it was, things like not being able to change ONLY the color of Gordeau's belt because it's color is tied to what his pants color is just fricken frustrates me. I feel like I should be able to customize the colors of the characters accessories alone and I just can't. Same with weapon colors...where's my option for that? If I want Insulator to have a dumb looking green color while Hyde is still set to his default skin, I should be able to!

Since UNI2 decided to make the alts free essentially. All that money (or IP, in think, in this game) will be spent on 5-10+ year old artwork that we have already seen in UNICLR. The only things worth buying in this game are the customization options for your online profile...but even THAT was downgraded! I missed the profile backgrounds where the characters were laying on there sides in UNICLR and I thought we would get more stuff like that here...NOPE! Every profile background and boarder is basic AF. I wish there were more options, like in BBTAG, to put your favorite characters on your profile and it's just not here in any form. Welp, there goes any hope of spending my money.

You know, and I hate to say it. Since UNI2 for a lot of people is very dependent on sex appeal. Why couldn't they just make alts where the characters are in swimsuits? Make that the most expensive thing to buy, at least then the IP would have some purpose! Ik, ik, "they can't for many of them because they would have to change the sprite," but the reason why I suggest this is because if creating new cloths for these characters is too hard and time consuming. Maybe it would have been easier for French Bread to remove sections of the sprites and just add a bathing suit instead. It would at least be SOMETHING, but we weren't aloud to get something. We got nothing most of the time and it shows with how little there is to buy in this game.

Arcade mode...god I don't even know where to start.

I have not viewed all of them, but the ones I saw, especially when it came to the night blade group were very, very bad. There were things important to Hyde's character development (specifically him promising Linne to kill her) that were never followed through with and that contributed to not only Hydes bad ending...but his MULTIPLE bad endings (yes, he has several.) What I mean by this is while Gordeau has a solid conclusion with one canon ending, Hyde has at least four of five different endings (depending on the character you play) and to me. That is just a complete and utter copout. If we need to be technical about it, I would guess that Hyde's arcade mode is the cannon ending...but because Linne is present at the end during the other characters stories. It makes me think that French Bread wanted to leave the conclusion to Hydes story open ended...in the last game in the series...probably...

Side note, I also really hate that most of Hydes friends just sort of ditch him in his arcade mode. This is something that sort of bothered me in UNICLR where he and his friends are either forced to fight or they leave him in the dirt because "it is the only way." I just never felt like Hyde's friendships were genuine (other than maybe Orie, but we don't see enough of them interacting.) It's the same problem I have with Gordeau and Hilda where in UNICLR, Gordeau pretty much swore off to being friends with her at the end of his arcade mode. In UNI2? For SOME REASON there buddy buddies again and THAT really bothers me. Especially with what happened to Rodger and how his death effected Gord throughout the series.

But yeah, most of the endings feel like either huge copouts or let downs. Orie doesn't even speak in her ending! (The last section of her arcade mode I mean) To me, it's the little things that really add up to make UNI2 a bad game.

The last thing I will say that really pisses me off is how network mode is handled. Say what you will about BBTAG, but I think ArcSystems nailed how the lobbies should work. The only things I wished they added eventually was a spectate mode or a way to turn your tag, (and your name if you want), off so that you can fight people who are your rank without the fear of losing your tag color. There are some other nitpicks, but I liked choosing avatars and talking with other people online.

UNI2 needed something like this, and I know, I understand. They might not of had the money or time (the time thing is what I'm most curious about because the rumors say UNI2 has been in development for a couple of years). However, I still stand by that aesthetically and maybe even gameplay wise. Network mode needed to change or have a complete overhaul. This might be a me thing, but it does bother me and is something I felt needed an upgrade...if it was done right which, unfortunately, I fear that it wouldn't have been.

(My reaction to working on this long, dumb ass essay for two days.)

I will end my final statement on UNI2 by saying this. The one thing as a writer that pisses me off more than anything else is seeing the potential for game to grow and become something more....but the passion to do so from it's creators is never fully there. That itch to expand your world, to develop your characters, to try to advocate for the game you put years and years into hoping it will be the next big thing...and in the end, French Bread fumbled over the finish line, hard.

UNI2 was ripe for an anime adaptation, or a manga, or SOMETHING the would get it's name out there more because trust me. I saw it's potential! I wanted it so badly to do well so that maybe, we could get more merchandise, or a spin off game, and anime, hell, even new stickers for my laptop would have bee cool!

When I am THIS critical of a game like UNI2. It's because I want so badly for it to succeed. I WANT it to be the next big thing because I adore every single character on the roster. Other than the lack of a player base, UNICLR had it all. In my opinion, if French Bread didn't have a lot of money to spend. They should have just updated or ported UNICLR to the PS5 and used the money they had to market the game and put, oh I don't know, cross console play into your online mode! Yeah, I am still extremely bothered by that and this is also a contributing factor as to why players can't find people to fight online.

This will be the last time I say anything about UNI2. It's dead, it's done, and I'm ready to move on. At this point, the only hope UNI2 has now is if in a year, or maybe relatively soon, they start promoting the game they created. Other than advertisements, the only thing that I can think of that would really give UNI2 an overhaul is if one of the Under Night characters were put into the next smash brothers game. I don't know why this is the first thing that comes to mind for me, but smash brothers helped gamers for many years become interested in other franchises, big or small. Honestly, if French Bread has no money to advertise their game. To me, putting one of their characters into smash brothers or another fighting game feels like there only play at this point. I doubt that this will ever happen, but if it did, I honest to god believe it would at least keep people interested in UNI2 for several years.

Anyways, that's it, I'm done.

I gonna go get an ice cream now I guess.

#under night in birth 2: sys celes #under night in brith #uni2 #uniclr #uni 2 #under night inbirth #hyde kldo #gordeau #bbtag #UNI #video games #fighting games #anime fighting games

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hiemaldesirae · 1 year ago

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please. I'm begging you for more crumbs about VADD!Shen Jiu and also that Roxana AU you have from that art post you did of the two.

As a VADD AND SVSSS fan, especially as a fan of the original villains— please. I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH FOR MORE. I'm actually in the process of outlining a crossover with the original goods of both.

God, the Roxana one as well— please, PLEASE TELL ME SJ IS ROXIE HE'S SO ROXANA-CODED SOMEHOW. GIVE HIM BUTTERFLIES AND POISON AND— *gets knocked out*

by the way, LOVE your artstyle. scratches an itch i did not know existed in my brain. your chibis as well. they're so cute!!

oh you have no idea how long ive waited to talk about them. this mayyy get a bit long so ill leave it under the readmore.

disclaimer: i intend on finishing these fics so what im going to be talking about is inspirations and unfinished / abandoned ideas and other ideas i have for the works instead of anything relating to the plots themselves

for svadd, sj is a lot more complicated than he appears to be on the surface. im not so sure if what i have written currently is what i /want/ exactly because i know i want his character to go a certain way. the relationships between him and his modern-day friends is one meant to parallel the in-game "shen qingqiu" sj compares himself to and in much the same way, mirror the way that sy contrasts himself with sqq in canon: but instead of being condescending and viewing sqq as a one dimensional character, sj is able to appreciate his nuance while still being rightfully angry over his actions

to me, sj is supposed to be an unreliable narrator who constantly enforces his own thoughts. he tells himself over and over that he misses his home and that he wants to go back, that he absolutely needs to- but then, he turns the other way and finds himself being sucked even deeper into this different one.

i also really wanted to explore how sjs dynamic with a lot of the characters would be affected knowing that they were "based off" his real friends, but again im not very confident with how it came off lol

there was a lot of points in the story where i attempted to add in foreshadowing for the ending i want the story to take... in any case, it definitely wont go the same way as vadd, though i did toy with the idea of a "version" of sy being the main villain haha

(it might still happen for shits and giggles)

as for the roxanna au there are a lot of things ive wanted to do with this au and its good that i havent posted because it means i can keep revising til i come up with something good lol

its a liujiu au with some bingyuan / cumplane thrown into the mix (the cumplane is overwhelmingly toxic btw bingyuan is the healthy one out of the two here 😭) where yes sj is xana !!! he really just makes such a good manhwa villainess haha

i had been puzzling over what i wanted his motif to be-- after all, sj is typically associated with the simplicity and calming bamboo so the glittering butterflies wouldnt work with him- but after some deliberation i decided with using moths for him :3c still subject to change ofc but i think im happy with this as is

the story is somewhat similar to how roxanna goes but surprise sj isnt the transmigrator here! (and honestly, roxanna wouldve been sm better if xana hadnt been a transmigrator... or maybe i just think that because it was only used as a convenient plot point for her to know crucial info. sigh.)

my outline of how the roxanna au goes is basically this:

lqg fucks around and finds out

sj who has been seeing dreams of the "book" sy read knows what will happen to his family if lqg dies

etc

at the same time: sy, transmigrator, attempts to make sure his only surviving older brother lives to a long happy life and the only way he can secure this is by fucking up that hack author

also i killed off qi-ge and idk if i want him to come back. he'll be like the stereotypical dead anime mother for this au lmao

hmm and i think thats all i have to say for these aus... thanks for giving me a chance to ramble on haha ~ much appreciated !! and thank you for the compliment, im flattered!! 🥹🥹💕

#ran rambles #quite literally #shen jiu #original shen qingqiu #svadd #sv x roxanna #svsss #svsss au

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angryschnauzer · 2 years ago

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💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕

Oh wow, i'm not sure how long this has sat in my inbox as i'm shit at checking it, but thank you for sending it.

I art I create is fanfic. Writing has always been a passion for me, and since finding fanfiction almost a decade ago i've had a creative outlet for the fantasy scenarios i'd play in my head. I also have a love of all things Supernatural (as in Spooky, not the show), with Vampires and Werewolves top of my favourite lore. So the stories i am most proud of are the ones that build their own little world with supernatural elements in. I've got 3 series 'started' and have well meaning intentions to continue them at some point, hopefully 2023 is the year where i can finally put aside one day a week for writing.

First up is my Blackwater Lake series. It centres around a town in the Rocky Mountains, and each one of Henry's characters is a different 'creature'.: Werewolf!Sy: Moonlight on the Sand Castle Under The Stars.

Werewolf!Sy, Vampire!Walter:Chapter 1

Vampire!Walter:Chapter 2

August/Wood Nymph Girlfriend: Chapter 3

Shapeshifter Geralt:Chapter 4

Werewolf!Sy -Hair of the Dog

Then we have more of a vampire-lore story; The Watcher series:

The Watcher- Vampire Sherlock

The Watched- Vampire Sherlock x Reader x Vampire Geralt of Rivia

Always Watching - Vampire/Werewolf Hybrid Geralt x Succubus Reader

And finally the start of a reverse harem/ABO/Werewolf Moon series:

By The Waning Crescent Moon - Werewolf Alpha Sy x Omega Reader

It pains me that i haven't been able to update any of these recently, even though i re-read them myself many times to keep myself in the loop with the stories. Like i said, 2023 is going to be spooky year for stories.

I'd like to tag @littlefreya @bolontiku @poledancingdinos @kittenofdoomage and @peachyvulpixie as amazing creators i'd love to see their self love stories for their art.

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jiabeewrites · 2 years ago

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Who's your favorite star wars character, and why?

(mine's obi-wan)

-🐻

Hi 🐻! (same, i love obi-wan!) I hope you know what you're getting into...

Okay, I know that I've talked a LOT about Echo, but he's actually not my favorite!

GASP WHOA SHOCKER.

He's tied in second with Ahsoka. So my favorite Star Wars character is...

THIS GENIUS BASTARD RIGHT HERE ⬇️

MITTH'RAW'NURUODO AKA:

THRAWN

If you've come all this way, excellent! Here's the actual essay on why I love Thrawn and why he's such a compelling character.

This is gonna be pretty long, and if you haven't read any of the Timothy Zahn Thrawn books, you're gonna be spoilt.

To put it simply? Thrawn is good at what he does. He's not an incompetent dumbass like we see with many of the Imperial Officers (mainly in Star Wars Rebels and The Empire Strikes Back). He's not a magical space wizard. He's one of the only non-human people we see running the Empire at all.

But here's the really long version.

Thrawn starts out as this really weird guy. And this is Chiss standards. He doesn't use standard military tactics, he's both loved and hated (mostly hated), and people don't really understand him. All they understand is that he wins. He is very, very good at what he does, all because he studies people's art.

Yeah. That's a big one. He understands art like no one else.

We'll get back to that later.

But throughout his pre-Empire life, we keep seeing people who are conspiring to bring him down. All throughout the trilogy, Thrawn: Ascendancy, his own family doesn't want anything to do with him. They plot against him.

And he fucking knows.

Eventually, he gets "exiled."

Now, there's a huge timeskip between the Ascendancy trilogy and the Thrawn trilogy. But we see the Empire discovering this weird blue dude, he speaks a foreign language, but guy understands Sy Bisti.

And so does Eli Vanto.

Long story short, they throw both Thrawn and Eli into the Imperial Military Academy or some shit and then Thrawn slowly becomes Grand Admiral, blah blah blah, I won't spoil the rest of it because its really interesting and go read the fucking books.

But we see, throughout the all the books and even the Rebels series: Thrawn is very, very good at being smart. He outsmarts the Rebels more than once, he lies to the Emperor's fucking face, he sends more than one person to his people in order to protect them from the Empire's wrath.

He's not like the other Imperials, who immediately fire/kill people who fail them. He teaches his subordinates to learn from the mistake. (People probably died but most of the time they didn't)

He uses art to determine people's weaknesses. This...this both confuses and fascinates me, mostly because I can't see what's right in front of me until he points it out. This is the ONE thing that Canon Thrawn keeps from the books Thrawn. If he can't find art, he lets them attack first so that he knows what defense/offense to use against them.

Yes. He has weaknesses. Just like any other character, but his I find particularly funny. Politics. He sucks at dealing with anything political, something that his family used against him. Pretty sure that's what got him "exiled."

TLDR, Thrawn is an amazing character. He's got major flaws, yes, but...god, I can't even decide if he's a good guy or not! He's the hero and the villain. He's a GENIUS. He understands art like no one else, he's a brilliant tactician, ruthless to his enemies and confusing to his allies. (Unless, of course, those allies are Eli, Ar'alani, or Samakro)

And I swear, if I don't see Eli Vanto, the Chiss, or the Rebels being thoroughly confused/concerned about Thrawn in the Ahsoka series I will throw hands and Disney better catch them.

#thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #eli vanto #ensign vanto #thranto #oh my god i love them so much #thank you anon #i got to rant about my fav

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bluebudgie · 2 years ago

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2, 8 & 18 for my most specialest little guy petthri, 1 & 14 for lahpp and 12 & 19 for bobbie <3

Thank you for the asks!! Let's go:

Petthri

2. Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

Not at all! But as a little fun fact: I changed his haircolour (and haircut) twice the day I created him lol. (It was white at some point but ultimately that felt too close to what I already had on someone else so I changed it back to the original darker grey).

8. What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story?

I think this image will do a better job explaining than any words could:

18. What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?

I actually think the question you asked me about his saviour complex a while back and the explanation I tried to come up with is sort of the "biggest" recent development. There may have been smaller little tidbits but I can't think of any more recent ones rn >.<

Lahpp

1. What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?

His voice. Not to open the biggest can of worms I got available in the shelves again but I cannot stress enough that this man came into existence because of A Song. Or well, several songs from the same recording if you want to be pedantic. But there was definitely one main culprit.

If memory serves right my very first thought was "I need a guy with this voice who simps for Dunnh". A relatively large chunk of his current backstory actually followed pretty soon after. So uh. Yea. That makes him, alongside Luqqah, another of my rare "wasn't created because of a cool armour/weapon skin" characters.

14. If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?

This is sooo diffiult for him;; I always felt like I had a really clear vision of who he is and still had the hardest time really grasping his personality in a "tangible" manner for a long long while.

I'd guess one of the main principles would be "keep him the boring background corporate guy". The other one would be being mindful of the challenges his disabilities pose him? Trying to keep in mind how certain situations, interactions etc. would be impacted, obviously without reducing him to just that... aah I hope this makes sense;;

Iekko

12. What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?

I think he's actually one of my easier characters to draw! He's so expressionless too it makes it really easy to draw his face because he looks pretty much the same all the time haha.

That said, I don't think I could ever bring him to any sort of RP event or the like. I'm not a writer but I feel like writing about him would be very, very descriptive. Any first person dialogue would be hell because quite honestly, he just doesn't have much input on anything at all. Neither vocal nor in body language.

19. What is your favorite fact about your OC?

I keep nicknaming him the "walnut" which essentially just became a thing because... was it either his skin or hair/leaf colour in the character creator were called "walnut".

I later decided he's got these little heart-shaped openings on his cheeks between his leaves. Well guess what I found out: There's actually a japanese walnut tree that produces heart-shaped nuts. He doesn't grow any fruit himself but I think this is a kinda cute coincidence. And also makes for a funny cute-sy contrast to his very emotionless self.

#oof long. sorry about that nfjkenkje #thank you so much for the ask!!#echowilds #budgie plays gw2

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licensedproldier · 4 months ago

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HI i was going to put this all in the tags bc i loved it so much but then tumblr stopped saving and i panicked because i wrote SO much and then started copying everything and then discovered tumblr logged me out??? so anyway i guess it's going on the post welcome to 1am sort-of art analysis i guess!

this is so cool. im not usually huge on class swaps but i AM huge on character design and holy shit op your body language is also TOP FUCKING TIER im eating this up. the colors only being on certain pieces of clothing says SO MUCH about how they progress.

obviously rogue fabian pulling his hood back and then a shorter cloak…..ough opening up. also him having his hand on his gun in freshman year but then the crossbow is visibly behind in in junior year....also his pants got baggier!! and he switched eyepatches oooooo. i also do love that he starts wearing the cloak looser around his shoulders and begins wearing other things under it! less regard for functionality more regard for comfort! same with growing his hair out <3

ALSO his junior year post mirroring his freshman year one!!!! each showing a different hand and a different side, meanwhile sy has both hands hidden maybe representing a lack of agency? assuming a similar arc of course. i also really enjoy the slight progression of his head tilt, from downwards to forwards to upwards. gaining some confidence. almost ends up with the fabian we know in fy by the time this one hits jy! also yellow is such a fun choice its such a cheerful color for a character that is not postured correspondingly at all in 2/3 of the illustrations.

PLUS THE CLOAK IS REAL BIG ON HIM SUDDENLY HAD THE THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE HIS FATHERS. YOU SLY MF. OUGH. at first i was just going to point out the short sleeves change was fun but CMON. CMON. taking a part of your past that hurt you and making it your own....

adaine starting very simple and going from skirt to pants to what looks like ARMORED OR REINFORCED pants along with jacket. like gaining confidence in her abilities. also reinforced by fantastic expressions and poses. (fuck i lost my copy/paste here uhh) the slight upward angle insinuating that she always had what it takes and just had to discover it for herself.

ALSO the change from skirt to jacket moving the weight of her silhouette upwards resulting in a much bigger presence and more intimidating shape as she gains confidence and skills. the blue going through multiple different shades like she's trying to find herself. AND I BARELY NOTICED THE MASK but the disappearance of it by junior year.............ough. her hair gets messier and her clothing gets more intricate i love that she looks so much happier in her own thing. the transition from nervous and frantic to indifferent to slightly manic anticipation is truly so delightful.

OH plus the fact that her outfit doesnt actually change that much from sy to jy except for the addition of her own little things, its like finding a home and then finally making it yours, once you've found who you are. i like it a lot.

also a very subtle but fun change in belt buckle from rounded to uh. a funky slanted one. slay.

fig's transition through pink to red and also the CHANGE OF CAMERA ANGLE FROM DOWNWARDS TO UPWARDS OUGHHHHH. still that cute cheerleader girl in freshman year and going full punk by junior……. also guh. shes so pretty. if i was a little more allo id say hot but ohhhhh i love her

ALSO also bc i keep looking at it. sophomore year fig being the messiest one because of all the lines in her uh. shirt. fishnet shirt. idk im sorry man. and also the plaid(??? fuck me) skirt adding to the visual noise. the way it contrasts with the smoothness of her freshman year silhouette, arcs getting broken up by the fluff of the previously round pink apparel. symbolizing the period of her biggest and messiest transition. breaking down who you thought you were so you can become who you are now

and her silhouette gets smoother again in junior year with bold lines and solid colors!!!!!!! YEAH GIRL

also love the inverting of her knee brace (i think?) and her stockings going black to match her hair <3

kristen gives me such dorothy wizard of oz vibes here ngl, the shape of her shoelaces changing oooooooooooo... also always love it when someone gives kirsten the masc treatment it always feels like a very sweet instance of player bleed

but also sophomore year her with the ruffled edges on her clothing almost like literally peeling away?? POTENT imagery. AND the half-untucked dress/shirt revealing big shorts that were covered in freshman year….the ruffles and poof being very feminine contrasting to the way her hair is pulled back. she's in-between. i think best represented by how the dress is quite literally only half tucked. what a fun parallel to her doubt arc as a cleric.

also the purple first being out and obvious as her dress but pulled back and hidden as though in uncertainty during sophomore and THEN remanifested as a jacket in a form she seems most comfortable with. im sure there are no trans/gender discovery metaphors to be found in being a sorcerer no siree oh whats that its pete conlan with a s--

tiny detail of the little bows on her shorts in sophomore year that are i think loose and untied in junior year. i love that

ough…………..gorgug my boy hi………………..

op theres so much color things going on in here and i DO see your transfem headcanon which is based as hell. also the shape of his staff changing from what looks like an axe blade to…….maybe a person? but regardless to much rounder shapes

and HEY look at that another jacket off as revealing thy true self metaphor!!!! i like that….the shirt colors are a thread of consistency and at first its secondary to the jacket and then its primary but still existing in exception to the jacket and then it IS the jacket!!! not to mention the color expanding to her skirt!!!!

theres also something here about his collar getting wider and deeper. a splitting down the middle. idk op i think your metaphors rock even if theyre not intentional. something about the pensive feeling of the sophomore year design gets to me. the middle phase where it feels like something in you is demanding to be let out and might break you in the process.

secret: the thing is being trans and ALSO your crippling insecurity! yay

god riz looks so cute. he looks so cute. thats just a sweet little guy i would give him my lunch

im genuinely so curious what your riz bard thoughts are because you havent drawn him with an instrument which seems intentional!! and also because this cant be very different from our riz who has famously been a workaholic with problem solving as his primary expression of love. so its both very funny and fitting that the only tool i see him with is still the gun. bless.

but also his hair getting longer and more unkempt in sophomore year, his hand on the gun, everything screaming tension and also a bit of a mess. ALSO THAT JACKET IS SO SO BIG ON HIM WHOS IS IT. WHO. i love it so much.

also his ears are out in sy! which is a fun detail and i didnt actually realize they WERENT out in fy which now has me worried. OH THE OTHER JACKET IS ALSO BIG ON HIM. WHAT. op thats so mean. he keeps trying to be something and someone that doesn't fit him? the belief that he as just himself isn't enough and he has to be more like something or someone else? hurgh is that first jacket maybe also his dad's. ill lose it.

it makes his jy design very cathartic to see, honestly. you drew him with his shoulders up and hunted and so CLEARLY uncomfortable in both fy and sy that him simply with an ARM RAISED breaks the blob of a silhouette he's been in and gives him, like, freedom of movement again? plus his hairstyle being a mix of the first and second is very soft to me. not quite either and a something of both.

THERES PROBABLY MORE IF I LOOKED AT THEM FOR LONGER but its also getting late and ive written this out twice now so i will peace out!!!! love you op this is so cool i hope this brings you some joy in whatever time you see this <3

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

#fh #txt #fhjy #i dunno man. i went insane i love these designs so much.

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dusty-cabinet · 7 months ago

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(Note: our posts are not informational.)

It’s hard to tell how much of our life is system stuff and how much is simply an overall personality change from traumatic events.

In 2017 my favorite animal was the zebra, my favorite color was green, and my main interest was LPS. I’d cry really easily, a lot. It’d been that way for years, almost my entire life.

But by some point in 2020, my favorite color was blue. My favorite animal was the aardvark. And I had very little interest in LPS. I felt numb to almost everything.

Sys stuff was initially suspected in 2018, if I recall correctly. Maybe 2017? Unsure. But it was assumed 🧩 had been the host for most of our life. But seeing how many things changed substantially, I’m not sure that’s the case. I think maybe 🧩 was only the host at the time we started looking into sys stuff for the first time..

Though, I’m not sure, really. I can’t mark the point where it was decided my favorite color was blue. It’s scary to admit I’m different so I kind of stall on telling anybody, continuing to pretend my favorite color is green and that I still love everything as I did..

All I know is those don’t look like the same person. Maybe at the time, it was easy to think they were. Who knows, honestly. Everybody from that time doesn’t really communicate much anymore.

I’m going to make macaroni and cheese now..

I don’t know who I am.. ‘Tis the life in a potentially shared mind I suppose..

Does anybody else feel more comfortable coming up with your own words for things? I’m always scared of intruding or using words wrong. Especially with denial and all that.. whatever.

Anyways. Despite all those changes, a lot of us agree on the aardvark. And clocks.. we like clocks. But for fandom type interests a lot of us seem to have preferences there. We also tend to have color and art preferences as well. But we all like blue, I think.

This post is messy.. NOW I will make the macaroni!

#cabinet journal

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daisygreeen · 1 year ago

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ARTICLE 4: PICASSO OR PIXELS?

Above: Illustration of a robot holding an artist paintbrush, showing how AI art is prominent in todays world

As I was wondering what to do for my fourth article, I started looking at how some careers are in jeopardy due to AI. Unlike my first article, this article talks of how AI itself is reshaping careers and scaring many people in this career as well. I picked an article from The Guardian, talking about how AI is impacting visual art. The article I chose was ““It’s the opposite of art” why some illustrators are furious about AI” by Sarah Shaffi, published on January 23rd, 2023. This article talks about the implications of AI and art. It also goes into depth about how AI is affecting illustrators specifically, taking many quotes from them. The article then talks of the legality of AI art, and how it risks the careers of many artists everywhere.

From the start of the article, I knew it would be against the use of AI as art. The title has already said it all. For newspapers it is a rush for you to buy their narrative. I saw this with the other articles as well, never truly showing another perspective unless it is to undermine that opinion. The same was done with this article.

For starters, I really liked the starting of this article. It started off by describing an AI generated image they had placed at the start of the article. I found it a bit ironic as though they were against AI, the indeed use AI to create art, but it easy to understand the more you read that they did it for a reason. As they describe the art, they begin to show the flaws in it, how the face is blurry or the colour of the sky isn’t quite right. I heavily enjoyed this introduction, as it flawlessly allowed to pull the reader into their narrative, showing the flaws in AI without even having to do a lot of work. It was a good tactic, and it also showed media bias. Instead of complimenting the art even more, the author showed its flaws, showing us even more the bias/side of AI that this author/media company is on. But I also found that while showing this media bias to be against AI, they put in a very poor AI drawing, while putting in artwork that in my opinion looks much better than what the AI bot made. I feel like this was used to show the reader how AI art is not only bad but not well drawn, in hopes to move them away from using it.

To add on, I found that this article explained certain feelings about AI extremely well. For example, when talking about the AI generated image, the author says how with AI art there is no “creative satisfaction.” I truly and deeply believe in this and am possibly influenced by the article. While it is fun to create random images based on prompts and watch what appears, it creates an impatience in us. The more we look at these images we begin to realize that there is no creative satisfaction. These are just images generated by a computer, not something that truly means something. Art is about expression, and the advancement of AI art in my opinion could jeopardize it, just like they say in this article.

This article, like the others, took many quotes. Many quotes were taken from artists, giving their opinion. Virtually all of the authors had the same negative view towards AI, making some good comments. Many artists think AI just “copies.” I found this quote really captured how some people view what AI is doing. Anoosh Syed said that “AI doesn’t look at art and create its own. It samples everyone’s then mashes it into something else.” This is evident if you look back to the AI generated image above, it does indeed look like a “mash” more than art in my opinion. These quotes helped back up the opinion of the article, a tactic I saw used in other articles as well. It almost somehow makes the point feel more validated with the quotes, makes the reader feel like they are the only one who does not have the same opinion. It pushes you to believe in a way, with the fear that you aren't going along with “what everybody else is thinking.”

Another addition is that this article explained the effects of AI art on society pretty well. It talked of how many small jobs might be taken by AI, as many people want a quick and inexpensive way to use art. This damages the value of art exponentially, and I liked how the quotes showed that. But I feel like a few statistics would have been nice, rather than getting quotes. Quotes can be highly subjective, with data bringing another layer into this issue and possibly make people more likely to believe this issue.

All in all, I would say that this article is my favourite so far. It goes in depth with the issue of AI and artificial intelligence, showing it how it will affect our society.

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rarepears · 11 months ago

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#considering nyy's age sj was already a disciple#since yqq was head disciple when lbh was born#meaning sj wasn't peak lord yet#i vote he was experimenting trying to improve his cultivation#maybe fought with lqq or yqq#and boom cultivation baby#mpreg or plant#i just have a hard time seeing sj into women#his complicated relationship with men makes him being gay more interesting to me lol#so anyway plant nyy or mpreg baby nyy#and no one knows the other parent is either lqq or yqy#sj is just like asexual reproduction as expected of me#and everyone buys it#not sure why she is called ning instead of shen#in this version there is no grave of another parent unless sj lied to nyy about it#so sy finds out from yqy being like nyy looks just like xiao jiu when he was young as expected#also if it's asexual reproduction it's funnier cause sy would never believe it#scum villain must have gotten a sex worker preggers!#also how does sy reconcile the fact that lbh accused sj of perving on nyy when he was her dad?#does he think even worse of him when he thought he was her adoptive father? like he was grooming her?#or does he start to doubt some of the scum villains scummyness#i slept 2 hours can you tell? @caranmerya

I think it would be fucking hilarious if Shen Jiu fulfilled this absolutely wild chain of improbably events (like it's some NPC-given quest in a video game) that allows him to get a plant-baby. I say plant baby because asexual reproduction would imply that Ning Yingying is MTF trans since how else would the chromosomes for gender change.

Then again, MTF Ning Yingying would be fascinating... Actually I do want MTF Ning Yingying...

Anyways back to my main point. Shen Jiu completes an impossible chain of events (worthy of a protagonist's luck TBH) to get plant baby. The Plant is called "Ning". No one ever thinks that Shen Jiu could have done such a thing, so they all assume that Shen Jiu got a prostitute pregnant or something like that and is claiming it's a plant baby to hide his misdeeds. Yeah sure. Just like how that An Ding disciple "accidentally" fell down and got a cucumber up his ass.

So that's misunderstanding 1.

When people find out that yes, Shen Jiu did eat this particular type of spider deep fried in duck fat with paprika flakes and rice flour but no salt, then went to bath in a crystal blue lake in full moon with a capybara that has cultivated to foundational stage and did [insert a whole list of the most random requirements]... Yeah no, how can someone do all of that accidentally? They all assume then and there that this was planned and Shen Jiu was feeling baby fever.

That's a second misunderstanding.

What's a third misunderstanding that can be thrown into this? Oh I know! The reason why Ning Yingying is such a naive (and dumb) kid is because she's a plant baby. This particular plant at least doesn't grow and mature at the same rate as humans! She might look like a 12 year old kid, but she's mentally only 6! A brilliant 6 year old who has great talents in the arts, but still a 6 year old at heart.

It's no wonder that Shen Jiu doesn't disciple her - he can't really punish her for all her wrong doings if she doesn't have the maturity level to understand. Plus she probably has some plant instincts lol.

AU where SJ is Ning Yingying's biological father, but it was never said in the published version of PIDW, it was just in Airplane's notes. Only Yue Qingyuan & Mu Qingfang know. Flash to SY transmigrating into SJ's body and Ning Yingying slips up and says "Daddy, are you ok? You're acting weird". SY flips out in true Peerless Cucumber fashion.

Okay back up. How does Shen Jiu have a kid in the first place? Who is her mother?? A prostitute that he happens to develop feelings for after visiting the Red Pavilion so often? Perhaps in corresponding with his (annoying) disciples' parents, he meets a widowed aunt and they start up something special. Certainly, Shen Jiu never thought he would end up marrying a noble woman in this way, but his marriage is cut short with his wife dying in childbirth.

Or is it the other way where Shen Jiu gets the mpreg experience?

Maybe Ning Yingying is a plant baby.

But regardless of how it happens, Shen Yuan's first thought is probably that Shen Jiu is an adoptive parent, not a biological parent. And he does his very best to think in only that direction. It's pretty easy to do that all things considering until Ning Yingying asks Shen Yuan when the two are going to visit her other parent's grave-

#svsss #svsss ideas #svsss au #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #shen yuan #mxtx #scum villain's self saving system #AU where SJ is Ning Yingying's biological father

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